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Book Reviews LANDSCAPES, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 1, 89–96 The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age. By Jim Leary. 2015. Bloomsbury Academic, xxii + 164 pages, ISBN 9781474245906, 10 b&w illustrations, £15 pbk. This elegantly-short book tells us about the North Sea when it was land. It ought finally to lay to rest the misleading sobriquet ‘land bridge’; Bryony Coles’‘Dogger Land’, here ‘Northsealand’ (following Childe), was no mere bridge or place of passage, but a place of long-term inhabita- tion by humans for dozens of generations over three or four Mesolithic millennia. The main theme, however, is how the land’s long disappearance was experienced as a way of life by resi- lient and adaptive human societies. This is a very topical theme: the book begins and ends with Pacific Islanders, and throughout there are ‘modern’ comparisons. However, I review ‘Remembered Land’ here mainly as an ambitious experiment in recon- structing not merely a lost environment, but something more complex, a lost landscape, i.e. the ways in which those living in Northsealand perceived their environment, interacted with nature, and embodied it in their actions, movements, beliefs and customs. The book is a fine demonstration of the need for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016 Graham Fairclough
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
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10.1080/14662035.2016.1189167
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LANDSCAPES, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 1, 89–96 The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age. By Jim Leary. 2015. Bloomsbury Academic, xxii + 164 pages, ISBN 9781474245906, 10 b&w illustrations, £15 pbk. This elegantly-short book tells us about the North Sea when it was land. It ought finally to lay to rest the misleading sobriquet ‘land bridge’; Bryony Coles’‘Dogger Land’, here ‘Northsealand’ (following Childe), was no mere bridge or place of passage, but a place of long-term inhabita- tion by humans for dozens of generations over three or four Mesolithic millennia. The main theme, however, is how the land’s long disappearance was experienced as a way of life by resi- lient and adaptive human societies. This is a very topical theme: the book begins and ends with Pacific Islanders, and throughout there are ‘modern’ comparisons. However, I review ‘Remembered Land’ here mainly as an ambitious experiment in recon- structing not merely a lost environment, but something more complex, a lost landscape, i.e. the ways in which those living in Northsealand perceived their environment, interacted with nature, and embodied it in their actions, movements, beliefs and customs. The book is a fine demonstration of the need for

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